>>>>> "Nathaniel" == Nathaniel J Wert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nathaniel> Actually, with the help of another person here we figured Nathaniel> out what was wrong. Apparently there is a problem with the Nathaniel> sleep() function where it interferes with the open() of the Nathaniel> file. That can't be the case. You have reached a false conclusion. Nathaniel> We have found three ways of fixing this. Nathaniel> system(sleep 1); instead of sleep() I don't think this would change it at all, unless for some reason Perl is now flushing all buffers whenever a child process is forked. Nathaniel> or using fopen instead Nathaniel> of open. I welcome your comments and thanks for the help. fopen() means you are creating an unbuffered filehandle, just like my code said to do. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
